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Offensive Cyber: Superiority Or Stuck In Legal Hurdles?, Jan Kallberg
Offensive Cyber: Superiority Or Stuck In Legal Hurdles?, Jan Kallberg
Jan Kallberg
In recent years, offensive cyber operations have attracted significant interest from the non-Defense Department academic legal community, prompting numerous articles seeking to create a legal theory for cyber conflicts. Naturally, cyber operations should be used in an ethical way, but the hurdles generated by the legal community are staggering. At a time when the United States has already lost an estimated $4 trillion in intellectual property as a result of foreign cyber espionage, not to mention the loss of military advantage, focusing on what the United States cannot do in cyberspace only hinders efforts to defend the country from future …
Europe In A ‘Nato Light’ World - Building Affordable And Credible Defense For The Eu, Jan Kallberg, Adam Lowther
Europe In A ‘Nato Light’ World - Building Affordable And Credible Defense For The Eu, Jan Kallberg, Adam Lowther
Jan Kallberg
From an outsider’s perspective, the Common Security and Defense Policy and the efforts of the European Defense Agency are insufficient to provide Europe with the defense it will require in coming decades. While the European Union—particularly the members of the European Monetary Union—struggle to solve prolonged fiscal challenges, viable European security alternatives to an American-dominated security architecture are conspicuously absent from the documents and discussions that are coming from the European Council and at a time when the United States is engaged in an Asia-Pacific pivot. This is not to say that no thought has been given to defense issues. …
Analysis - Toward A New American Military., Adam Lowther, Jan Kallberg
Analysis - Toward A New American Military., Adam Lowther, Jan Kallberg
Jan Kallberg
In releasing the United States Department of Defense’s (DoD) Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense and Defense Budget Priorities and Choices in January 2012, President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta offered a rationale for the administration’s reductions in defense spending. By stating that the shift in strategic direction is an effort to “put our fiscal house in order” and a response to the 2011 Budget Control Act, which requires DoD to reduce spending by $487 billion between fiscal years 2012 and 2021, the United States’ NATO partners in Europe were given considerable reason for …
The Return Of Dr. Strangelove, Jan Kallberg, Adam Lowther
The Return Of Dr. Strangelove, Jan Kallberg, Adam Lowther
Jan Kallberg
With the prospect of sequestration looming, the United States may find itself increasingly rely ing on nuclear and cy ber deterrence as an affordable means of guaranteeing national sovereignty and preventing major conflict between the U.S. and potential adversaries in the Asia-Pacific. While earlier defense planning and acquisition were based on economic conditions that no longer ex ist, Congress’s options to balance the budget by cutting defense spending are politically palatable because far fewer American are “defense v oters” relative to “social welfare voters,” according to a number of recent public opinion surveys. The simple fact is China’s rise has …
Trends. Commentary On “The Influence Component Of Counterterrorism: A Systems Approach, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Commentary On “The Influence Component Of Counterterrorism: A Systems Approach, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses the guiding principles for and challenges to a conceptual framework for deterring terrorism against the United States and its interests as presented by Paul Davis and Brian Jenkins in the Spring 2003 issue of Rand Review.
Trends. Nuclear Weapons Redux, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Nuclear Weapons Redux, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses rationales for reducing the number of nuclear weapons worldwide.
Trends. Head Count And Nuclear War: What To Believe, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Head Count And Nuclear War: What To Believe, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses three significant conundrums that arise in planning to deter nuclear war: 1. decapitation of the strength of the opposition; 2. lack of clear ontological validity for nuclear weapons-related language; and 3. the simultaneity of deterrence and provocation in one action.
Nuclear Weapons In The 21st Century: Sense, Nonsense, No Sense, Ibpp Editor
Nuclear Weapons In The 21st Century: Sense, Nonsense, No Sense, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article considers commonly posited benefits of nation-states' possessing nuclear weapons.
Missile Defense Versus Deterrence: A Troubling Dichotomy, Ibpp Editor
Missile Defense Versus Deterrence: A Troubling Dichotomy, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes fallacies in contrasting anti-ballistic missile defense with nuclear deterrence as mutually exclusive constructs.
Trends. Pakistan Evens The Score: Do We Need An Overtime?, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Pakistan Evens The Score: Do We Need An Overtime?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the recent Pakistani government nuclear detonations.